The old style photos showing a family out for a picnic with a plaid blanket laid on the ground and a wicker basket full of delicious food that’s too be enjoyed on paper plates with plastic ware is a thing of the past. As the ultra-luxury of the Rolls-Royce lineup continues to be more and more impressive they have taken over the world of the picnic basket to add a way for you to have a quiet retreat in the country with those who you choose to ride along in your new Phantom with you.

This new model of the Phantom will use lighter aluminum in the spaceframe and offer four doors as the standard offering. For a select few new owners of this amazing car, Rolls-Royce will offer them the Phantom Zenith Collection as an optional version of this new car. This edition of the Phantom is only going to be built for fifty customers, which means customers who are looking for the latest Rolls-Royce model for their collection need to open their decidedly deep pockets soon in order to take full advantage of this new Zenith model and all it has to offer.

Never before has there been a Rolls-Royce model that was built for the tailgating crowd, but this one certainly is. While Rolls-Royce is not looking to advertise to those who want to party at a soccer game or prepare for a college football game they do want their customers to enjoy the new features included in the rear of the vehicle and have advertised this area as a picnic space. The rear of the Zenith models come with a split tailgate that doubles as picnic seats with room for two to enjoy the seating and take advantage of what this car has to offer.

Included in this picnic seat area is a cool box, an illuminated glass shelf and a champagne holder. This gives you the perfect space to have a bottle chilling while you talk to some of your friends or admire the beautiful scenery of a wonderful picnic area, but this isn’t all the Zenith brings you. This space also comes equipped with a picnic hamper to give you a complete package for a meal on the road when you want to enjoy taking your food to a scenic overlook or even enjoy your lunch at a sporting event before kickoff.

These picnic baskets are a bit of a source of pride for the Rolls-Royce team and each one is crafted out of American Walnut wood and natural grain leather. These baskets are finished in a variety of color combinations to match the interior of your Rolls-Royce model. The piping of the baskets are meant to inspire thoughts of previous Rolls-Royce models such as the 1929 Phantom II or the 1925 Phantom II that are timeless classics. Of course there is even a look back at possibly the most famous of all Rolls-Royce models, the Silver Ghost from 1911 which is depicted with the seashell piping on the basket.

Inside each picnic hamper is housed lead crystal wine glasses, handmade stainless steel cutlery, napkins, a chopping board and crockery with painted black and platinum details around the edges. This is a far cry from the plastic silverware and paper plates you used to picnic with as a child. The hamper folds out usefully to make even a Boy Scout blush with how well stocked, packed and prepared you’ll be when it’s time to enjoy a great meal outdoors when you take a drive in your new Rolls-Royce Phantom Zenith collection model.

How you use this picnic hamper is completely up to you, but you certainly want to enjoy every aspect of this amazing car and what it has to offer. Unfortunately the picnic hamper doesn’t have room for food in it, but if you can afford a Rolls-Royce you might even want your picnic stops to be catered to give you the most opulent and impressive picnics in the world. Of course you could really show off and show up at your local college football game or soccer match and enjoy setting up a tailgate party for two on your split bench in the back of the car.